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One month after the murder of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail, the North Carolina General Assembly will return to Raleigh on Monday, Sept. 22, to consider a sweeping package of criminal justice reforms aimed at what Republican leaders describe as “weak-on-crime” policies.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2025 @ 3:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new report on Florida’s K-12 education system describes the main tenets of Critical Social Justice, discusses how this ideology finds its way into K-12 schools, and documents how Florida has worked to reduce its spread
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The new year means new laws for North Carolina. Here is a look at some of the laws that will take effect on Jan. 1, 2023.
Published: Thursday, January 19th, 2023 @ 12:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic megadonor George Soros will pay journalists anywhere from $63,000 to $85,000 to advance progressive criminal justice reform.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 10:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper signed three criminal justice reform bills into law today, House Bill 436: Support Law Enforcement Mental Health, House Bill 536: Law Enforcement Duty to Intervene and Senate Bill 300: Criminal Justice Reform.
Published: Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 7:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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James Antle of the Washington Examiner reports that a recent spike in crime could have a negative impact on bipartisan law enforcement reforms.
Published: Friday, July 30th, 2021 @ 10:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich offered his assistance to his counterpart in Georgia in the state’s escalating battle with the Biden administration over election reforms.
Published: Friday, July 23rd, 2021 @ 5:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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N.C. senators are moving forward an omnibus criminal justice reform bill that would make a wide range of changes to state law in response to recent cases of rioting, violence against first responders, and accusations of police brutality.
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 11:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NC's disorganized and confusing criminal code creates havoc for some people encountering the system
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 6:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Cal Cunningham went over a week without taking a position on Tim Scott’s JUSTICE Act.
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2020 @ 10:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate Republicans unveiled a comprehensive police reform bill Wednesday morning, beating House Democrats to the punch on an issue at the forefront of most Americans’ minds.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 @ 5:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Last year, President Donald J. Trump and Congressional Republicans delivered landmark criminal justice reform with the North Carolina Republican Congressional delegation leading the way in the passage of the First Step Act.
Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2020 @ 1:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has made many strides in criminal justice reform over the past decade.
Published: Sunday, March 8th, 2020 @ 10:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University student Darius Alexander has aspirations to be a district attorney and to influence criminal justice reform.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 4:29 am
By: ECU News Services
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Republicans and Democrats rarely agree, but in North Carolina the two parties seem to have found some common ground in a bipartisan agreement, which comes at the crossroads of criminal justice reform and occupational licensing reform.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 11:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A newly released statewide poll from the Pretrial Justice Institute and the Charles Koch Institute seems to show North Carolinians are ready for reform of the pretrial justice system and the practice of requiring money bail
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2018 @ 7:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded passage of the First Step Act, once in a generation bipartisan legislation that reforms America's criminal justice system
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 1:33 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the Senate's unanimous passage of bipartisan legislation he co-introduced that secures new protections for minors and improves accountability measures in the federal juvenile justice grant program
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2018 @ 8:14 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley praised Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) for his work to improve the First Step Act, bipartisan legislation to reform America's criminal justice system
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 10:07 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored the First Step Act, bipartisan legislation to reform America's criminal justice system
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a bill into law that begins cleaning up North Carolina's criminal code
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 8:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the N.C. Senate Judiciary Committee today, Andy Wells (R-42) introduced an important and valuable piece of legislation in the form a proposed committee substitute for House Bill 379
Published: Thursday, June 7th, 2018 @ 2:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While North Carolina leaders address a multitude of problems behind the state's prison walls, a new national poll shows growing support for criminal justice reform
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2018 @ 7:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who says Republicans and Democrats can't do good things together?
Published: Friday, December 1st, 2017 @ 4:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this year, the commission delivered a report to the General Assembly urging, among other reforms, legislation raising the default age teenagers charged with nonviolent offenses would be tried in adult courts from 16 to 18 years old
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, attended a committee hearing to discuss how to improve outcomes for youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:17 am
By: Thom Tillis
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During his first two years in the U.S. Senate, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has been a leading advocate for bipartisan criminal justice reform, a continuation of his successful efforts to implement reforms at the state level during his tenure as North Carolina House Speaker
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) joined Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) at the Washington Post Juvenile Justice Summit for a discussion about juvenile justice reform and sentencing reform
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 5:10 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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A recent event hosted by the Libre Institute highlighted an issue that's gaining support across the ideological spectrum: Reforms in the criminal-justice system that would clean up the legal code, not only reducing penalties for nonviolent offenses but also removing many crimes from the books
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2016 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is trying to push through criminal justice reforms in Congress modeled on measures he helped shepherd through the North Carolina General Assembly when he was speaker of the House.
Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Department of Justice should butt out of North Carolina's mental health problems, since it is partially responsible for getting us into the situation we now face.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A nationally recognized criminal justice reformer is confident North Carolina eventually will overturn a state law allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to be charged as adults, but acknowledges political resistance to the proposal remains.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The hearing that will determine the fate of North Carolina's election reform law wrapped up Aug. 7. Groups that included the NC NAACP and the League of Women Voters of NC, joined by Eric Holder's (and Loretta Lynch's) U.S. Justice Department, are suing the state over election reform legislation (th
Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 11:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last night, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of a bill to bring transparency to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), prevent the waste of taxpayer money, and reduce the law’s impact on economic growth.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 5:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) issued the following joint statement today in response to the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit on North Carolina's election reform law.
Published: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 @ 12:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed several landmark pieces of legislation during its 2011 session, dealing with key issues as regulation, civil litigation, criminal justice, education reform, and annexation.
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County seeks justice in regards to eqitable governing in respect to the legislation associated with the Health Care Reform Bill.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 @ 2:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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